Submission guidelines
Themes and issues published in Sharing Death Online may include:
- Online mourning communities and peer support
- Online memorial sites
- Handling of digital heritage R.I.P. pages on social media
- Changing relationships to the dead
- Afterlife beliefs and practices online
- Digital commercialization of death
- Suicide - counseling and crisis communication online
- Remediations of death practices online
- Dead bodies and materialities online
- Death, avatars and relations in fictional worlds
- New digital designs meeting the challenges of death
To submit a proposal to this series, please contact the series editor via email:
Dorthe Refslund Christensen
Aarhus University, Denmark
[email protected]
Calls for submissions
Highlighting death as a universal human experience, fostering intimacy and creativity, Sharing Death Online explores how humans navigate death and loss through contemporary media, emphasizing online platforms as key spaces for reinterpreting and performing death-related traditions.
Aims and scope
Humans face and deal with death and loss through media and technologies at hand.
In contemporary culture online media is perhaps the most important arena for the (re)interpretations (re)mediations and performances of traditions, practices and beliefs related to death and dying. While some of these traditions are indeed new and ‘digitally born’, others are revitalizations of older death-related practices.
Sharing Death Online embraces the fact that death is both a basic human condition that humans share socially, and an event in human life that calls people to be intimate and to share their human experiences both in relation to death and to other basic life conditions such as family, love, loneliness, health, friends, etc.
Viewing death as crisis, endpoint, turning point as well as a source of experimentation, creativity and transgression, the series welcomes both analytical case studies and theoretical and analytical contributions from and across a great variety of disciplines including media sociology, media aesthetics, cultural studies, digital design, psychology, visual anthropology and more.
This title is aligned with our fairer society goal
We are passionate about working with researchers globally to deliver a fairer, more inclusive society. This perhaps has never been more important than in today’s divided world.
